School closures

Text message alerts

Sign up to receive free text messages when your school closes. You can sign up for as many schools as you need.

Subscribing

Step 1) Select your school…

If your school is not listed, they may be using their own text message system. Please speak to your school to find out about signing up.

Step 2) Send the following message to 07950 081082. Texts sent to this number are charged at your normal operator rate. Note – it is important that you include the word ‘on’ at the end of you message.

If you need to sign up for more than one school, just repeat from Step 1 for each school.

Step 3) You will receive a confirmation message within 12 hours. If you don’t receive this, please try again, making sure you use the right telephone number and text in your message.

Un-subscribing

To manually un-subscribe from receiving messages for a specific school, please send the same message, but with “off” instead of the word “on”. Alternatively, sending “stop” will un-subscribe you to all of our text message services. The service automatically ends in August every year, so you will need to sign up again at the start of the new school year using the same process.

Twitter

The twitter account for school closures has the latest real-time updates.

Radio stations

Local radio stations play an important part in communications between schools and parents. For information about school closures listen to your local station. Schools are seldom able to take large numbers of phone calls directly.